Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 12. 1967.
Badminton Team Victorious
Badminton Team Victorious
Victoria won the Tournament badminton. Second was Otago and third Auckland.
Unbeaten in all their matches, Victoria players then filled four of the eight places in the NZU team.
Leading the tournament team, Lim Ee Chiat had a narrow win over the Otago No. 1, Wong Tat Mong. This three-set match was the highlight of the series. The score was 15-8, 8-15, 15-12.
This performance won Lim Ee Chiat his fourth consecutive NZU blue.
The fitness of Victoria's No. 2, Brian Quirke, stood him in good stead in his match against Otago's L. Chisholm. This was also a three-set match, won by Quirke, 17-18, 15-1, 15-9.
In comparison with the high standard of the men, that of the women was generally weak. Victoria girls were in most cases above the overall standard, winning all the doubles and most of the singles.
In the NZU game against the Otago provincial side, the students narrowly won 9-7. The University men were superior, but lack of team understanding squared the doubles 2-2.
The Otago women proved much stronger, their only defeat being at the hands of Canterbury University's Miss S. Ching over the Otago No. 3 seed.
Victoria was represented in the NZU side by Janet Miles, Jocelyn Trewby, Lim Ee Chiat and Brian Quirke.